[HN Gopher] BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years of broa...
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BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years of broadcasting
Author : mellosouls
Score : 25 points
Date : 2023-01-28 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.middleeasteye.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.middleeasteye.net)
| netsharc wrote:
| As Bruce Sterling said[1] in 2016:
|
| > Great Britain is becoming Little Britain. The UK is like a
| giant Cayman Islands in 2016. They used to be the wise and
| perfidious grownups in the geostrategic room, but now it's all
| about squalid, petty things like Brexit, Scottish secession,
| anti-immigration; British political extremes are thriving and the
| middle is dead as mutton. They've lost their soft-power by the
| bucketful; people who used to beg for their wise counsel now
| ignore them. What do they want -- to be Airstrip One for any
| creep with a trailer-truck full of cash? I've never seen them
| think so small.
|
| [1] https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/487/Bruce-
| St...
| snotrockets wrote:
| BBC was trusted world wide, because listeners knew that it was
| funded by British tax payers, hence not beholden to local
| governments (even if beholden to the foreign office), and that
| generated a huge amount of goodwill towards the UK, even as the
| nations the BBC broadcast to still had the scars of British
| colonialism.
| someperson wrote:
| > BBC World Service is also axing its Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi,
| Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, and Urdu radio services
| while moving services in Chinese, Gujarati, Igbo, Indonesian,
| Pidgin, Urdu and Yoruba to digital.
|
| > Although the station will be no more, Soliman said that content
| in Arabic would continue to be produced through a digital
| platform.
|
| > "We will carry on with digital audio programmes," he said.
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